Tag Archives: drm

Will Wright, the original creator of SimCity, is not at all impressed with the launch woes which plagued the most recent release, although he did have praise for the game itself.

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EA Labels boss Frank Gibeau says DRM isn’t something EA is interested in anymore, and therefore not the reason SimCity has an always-on Internet requirement.

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Ubisoft has declined to acknowledge that its always-on DRM policy was a mistake, and that it was damaging to the publisher’s reputation in a new interview on the issue.

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Ubisoft has battled piracy tooth and nail by using always-on DRM methods on its PC releases, sparking controversy among paying customers. However, the publisher has now backed down on its stance, and has abandoned the method. Ubisoft issued a statement on the matter this morning.

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Final Fantasy 7′s PC re-release hasn’t been exactly smooth. Square Enix has acknowledged a handful of issues and promised to address them as soon as possible.

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Ubisoft has issued a statement in response to security issues discovered in its Uplay DRM system.

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Ubisoft’s DRM stance has had gamers riled up before, but a new discovery today, which suggests the developer’s Uplay system may include a rootkit that potentially opens up your PC’s contents to the world, has the potential to create more than a little annoyance.

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A German consumer advocacy group has laid down another ultimatum over Diablo III, this time focusing on the RPG’s always-on DRM.

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Ubisoft’s Uplay system, which acts as an always-on DRM for many of its PC games, went down overnight – right in prime PC gaming time, thanks to the Steam sales. A representative for the publisher has issued an apology for the inconvenience and said servers are back online – but not before the downtime generated 200 or so angry forum posts on the ever-popular subject of is-DRM-the-very-devil.

Reverge Labs has affirmed that it plans to implement cross-platform multiplayer for the PC and PlayStation 3 versions of Skullgirls. As a result, Reverge needs to be quite choosy about any DRM system it may implement on the PC version, and won’t be using Games for Windows Live. Indie fighter Skullgirls is out now on both major console networks and will arrive on PC later this year.

Thanks, Gamespy.

Namco Bandai has already proved it listens to the PC crowd by porting Dark Souls over, and may just bend an ear to vehement protestations against the unpopular Games for Windows Live.

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Rage has erupted over news that the highly anticipated PC port of Dark Souls will use one of the least popular DRM solutions.

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GOG has said it thinks Ubisoft is moving in the right direction with its stance on DRM, however, it doesn’t think the “tides are turning” on the industry’s insistence to include the security measure.

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Ubisoft has said it wants to offer enough value to PC gamers that the need for DRM eventually “goes away”, and to do this, the firm’s digital boss Chris Early said a system similar to MMOs needs to be set in place.

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CD Projekt RED, which famously let DRM creep into the Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings before promptly patching it back out, has sworn off the anti-piracy measure for good.

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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings isn’t jumping to consoles to escape piracy; CD Projekt just trusts you all to fork over your cash in return for a fair deal.

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DRM is a waste of money, doesn’t work, and worst of all, so 2003, according to Paradox Interactive CEO Fred Wester.

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BlueByte has removed the component in its Tages DRM, which logged hardware changes on a user’s PC, thus using up one of the limited activations allowed for Anno 2070. According to a developer statement provided to Guru3D, “the graphics hardware from the hash used to identify the PC” was removed, which means you can now “switch the GFX as many times” as you want in your PC. At first, Anno players thought there was an error in the DRM causing the issue, but Ubisoft said the inclusion was “intentional” and that many users hadn’t experienced a problem with it. Thanks, RPS.

Ubisoft has said good customer support will resolve the few occasions when its Tages DRM affects players.

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Something of a kerfuffle has broken out – again – over Ubisoft’s ever-troubled DRM policies, which don’t like it when you switch out hardware.

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